My friend, Chelsea, works for The Hair Bow Company. I’m sure you just clicked on that link, but if you didn’t, you should. The Hair Bow Company is the gold standard for really cute bows (obviously), tutus, and frilly things for girls.
In other words, not the kind of stuff our girls usually wear.
Blame their non-frilly lives on me. I just never think about getting this stuff. I especially don’t think about getting them all decked out for something like Mardi Gras. Yes, I know we’re planning to go to Mardi Gras months in advance. Yes, I know the girls would love to be all pimped out for it (no pun intended), and yes, this stuff is cheap, but I’m usually too distracted to put all that together.
In other sad news, I never even think about things like bows. This is tragic because before I had daughters, I LOVED seeing little girls’ hair dolled up. Now that I have two beautiful girls, I’m always like, “Here. Let me do your ponytail. I have the rubber band that was around the newspaper. It’ll work.”
So, when Chelsea suggested the girls dressing up for Mardi Gras, and she even sent me the stuff, I was so excited. Actually, I was mildly excited compared to the jumping-up-and-down joy Catie and Elisabeth had when the package arrived. Suddenly, I realized my girls had been deprived of all the fun of dressing to the nines.
These shirts are so cute, and so cheap. The girls will wear them long after Mardi Gras. Not only are they comfy, but they want to relive the day when they were frilly, and just about every person we saw said, “WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE SHIRTS?!” Catie and Elisabeth ate it up.
Speaking of eating it up, here are the girls in the middle of Galveston’s Strand. Catie is surely saying something like, “Why does EVERYONE love our outfits sooo much?” Modesty is our gift. Anyway, these tutus are adorable. If we would have set up a booth selling these, we could have charged about $50 each. They were the envy of every little girl not wearing a Mardi Gras tutu.
Catie has issues with wearing pants. She hates them. It’s a problem on mornings when it’s colder than sixty degrees because she looks like she doesn’t have a bit of sense. She has embraced these Mardi Gras leg warmers as the perfect way to WARM HER LEGS without actually wearing pants. Brilliant.
One last picture of our girls dancing at Mardi Gras. Perhaps the best lesson we learned from this dressing-up extravaganza is the power of the hair bow. There are so many to chose from, and they add so much to any outfit. Why didn’t I think of this before?
Here’s what I learned from our Mardi Gras dress-up experience:
1. my daughters are natural show girls, who really love to get a little frilly.
2. With online shopping, dressing up is cheap and really easy.
3. A good hair bow makes even a newspaper-rubber-band-ponytail look great.
